A GHAZALIAT OF HAFEZ, SONNETS 8 TO 462, AND OTHER POEMS
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Iran, the manuscript 18th century, the re-binding 19th century

Persian manuscript on paper, 156ff. plus puce-end papers, each folio with 15ll. of black ink nasta’liq script in two columns, blank line charted between sonnets, within red, black, and gold rules, six of the initial folios with white borders, the rest re-bound in pale verdigris paper, the poetry containing many quatrains and several Abjad dates, set in an austere dark brown blind-tooled calf binding, the text panel 16cm x 7cm, the folio 20.2cm x 11cm.